Lecturers
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Corona update: The module takes place over 6 weeks, from 04.05.21 to 11.06.21 from Tuesday to Friday, 9.30-17.00 - see timetable below for detailed hours and classrooms. Class sessions include lectures, discussions, mentoring sessions, in-class exercises, assignments and independent study blocks. Projects are conducted individually or in a team of three students at most.
Room
Corona update: At home 
and here: https://zhdk.zoom.us/j/4710337215
Initial information before Corona curfew: ZT 4.K16. (on some few days: 5.K07). Additionally, we have a reservation of Modellbau Projekte ZT 2.E20-UU.
Overview and Objectives
The module 'Spatial Interaction' challenges students to deepen their practical and conceptual knowledge of human interactions in their immediate surroundings. Starting from a location in Zurich where public life and „tamed nature“ overlap, they will develop spatio-technical frameworks for situated interactions. The student projects will connect people and environmental processes with the aim of investigating local impacts of urban (or everyday?) behavior as well as long-distance effects of individual actions. They will learn how to interface the present mesocosm (collecting environmental data, identifying relationships) and how to experiment with advanced techniques like remote sensing or machine vision. Designing in such situations requires the development of strategies for public outreach and communication as well as basic knowledge about intervening in complex systems. In addition, students learn how to connect spatial and conceptual complexities and structure their approach in relation to their project goals while iteratively adapting their methods. Students will work in groups and in a form of self-governed organization developed specifically for this course.
Schedule
(to be developed on the fly due to the circumstances.)
past ZOOMmeetings:
Zoom with the whole group, Friday, april 24, 10:00 - 12:00
Zoom with the whole group, Friday, april 24, 14:00 - 15:00
Zoom with the whole group, Friday, april 17, 10:00 - 11:30
Zoom with Roman, Tuesday, april 7, 16:00 - max. 17:30
Zoom with Kaspar,Tuesday, april 7, 14:00 - max. 15:30
Zoom with Florian, Friday, april 3, 13:00
Zoom with Roman, Friday, april 3, 10:00 - 11:30
Zoom with Roman, Thursday, april 2, 11:45-12:00
Zoom with Roman, Thursday, april 2, 10:00 - 11:30
Zoom with Roman, Tuesday, march 31, 16:00 - max. 16:15
Zoom with Kaspar, Tuesday, march 31, 14:00 - max. 15:30
Zoom with Florian, Tuesday, march 31, 11:45
Zoom with Florian, Tuesday, march 31, 10:00
Zoom with Florian, Friday, march 27, 10:00
Zoom with Theun, Wednesday, march 25, 10:00
Kickoff Q&A sesssion on Tuesday, March 24, 12:15-13:00, students learn how to connect spatial and conceptual complexities and structure their approach in relation to their project goals while iteratively adapting their methods. Students will work in groups and in a form of self-governed organization developed specifically for this course.
Schedule
| Week 2 | Tuesday, 24.03. | Wednesday, 25.03. | Thursday, 26.03. | Friday, 27.03. |
| morning | - read introduction paper 12:15 ZOOM | 10:00 ZOOM Workshop Theun Karelse | 10:00 ZOOM Workshop Theun | 10:00 ZOOM Technology 1: Image & Video Processing (Blob Tracking) |
| afternoon | read Maedows "Leverage Points" | Workshop Theun 17:00 ZOOM | Workshop Theun 15:00 ZOOM | Technology 2: Computer Vision (OpenCV) |
| Week 3 | Tuesday, 31.03. | Wednesday, 01.04. | Thursday, 02.04. | Friday, 03.04. |
| morning | 10:00 ZOOM + 11:45 ZOOM Technology 3: Depth Sensing / Machine Learning (Deep Vision) | Individual Work: "Leverage Points" | 10:00-11:30 ZOOM Presentation Task "Leverage Points" 11:45-12:00 ZOOM Start Task phase 1: action-effects research + related art & design projects | 10:00-11:30 ZOOM Presentation Task phase 1 Start Task phase 2: concept development |
| afternoon | 14:00-15:30 ZOOM Kaspar König: Deep Listening - 16:00-16:30 ZOOM Start Task "Leverage Points" | Individual Work: "Leverage Points" | Individual work: Task phase 1 | 13:00 ZOOM Technology 4: Data Analysis |
| Week 4 | Tuesday, 07.04. | Wednesday, 08.04. | Thursday, 09.04. | Friday, 10.04. |
| morning | Individual work: Task Phase 2 | group building + concept preparation | individual mentoring (round 1 compulsory) | KARFREITAG |
| afternoon | 14:00-15:30 ZOOM Kaspar König: Deep Listening 16:00-17:00 ZOOM Presentation Task Phase 2 Concepts | group building + concept preparation | individual mentoring (round 1 compulsory) | |
| Week 5 | Tuesday, 14.04. | Wednesday, 15.04. | Thursday, 16.04. | Friday, 17.04. |
| morning | individual mentoring (round 2 compulsory) | free mentoring | free mentoring | 10:00 - 11:30 milestone presentation |
| afternoon | individual mentoring (round 2 compulsory) | free mentoring | free mentoring | |
| Week 6 | Tuesday, 21.04. | Wednesday, 22.04. | Thursday, 23.04. | Friday, 24.04. |
| morning | free mentoring | free mentoring | free mentoring | 10:00-12:00 final presentations |
| afternoon | free mentoring | free mentoring | free mentoring | 14:00 feedback session |
Literature
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- Donella Meadows: Leverage Points - Places to Intervene in a System.
- Franinovic & Kirschner: Microbiospherians. (to come)
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